GPT on PC/BIOS computers

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Millan
Here's a patch to enable GPT support for PC/BIOS systems. Need for GPT is increasingly common due availability of > 2 TiB hard drives. Please let me know if everything is correct. Some testing would be welcome, too (but be careful, earlier versions of my patch had a "feature" that fucked up you

EFI and binary distributors

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Millan
Hi there, What is the recommended way for binary distributors of GRUB to support PC/BIOS and EFI at the same time? Is it possible to build a mixed binary that supports both systems somehow? (and if it isn't, are there plans or ongoing work for that?) Also, which are the cpu platforms that may u

Re: update-grub2 patch

2007-05-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 30 April 2007 01:22, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 03:38:38PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:49, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Here's my patch. Let me know if it's ok for commit. > > > > To include this in the official repository, you need

Re: EFI and binary distributors

2007-05-01 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > What is the recommended way for binary distributors of GRUB to support > PC/BIOS and EFI at the same time? Is it possible to build a mixed binary > that supports both systems somehow? (and if it isn't, are there plans or > ongoing work for that?)

Re: EFI and binary distributors

2007-05-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 22:10, Robert Millan wrote: > What is the recommended way for binary distributors of GRUB to support > PC/BIOS and EFI at the same time? Is it possible to build a mixed binary > that supports both systems somehow? (and if it isn't, are there plans or > ongoing work for that?

configure and make and then what ?

2007-05-01 Thread Dennis Clarke
Deal GRUB2 folks : I fetched the current CVS and then performed the configure and make with success. Somehow "make install" seems not quite right. I want to bring GRUB2 over to my tftp server and then use PXE boot to fetch the grub2 binary as well as whatever else is needed. I have two files